Hyouka - Volume 03 - The Kudryavka Sequence - Welcome to KANYA FESTA! (1)

only be from my class. The only person I could think of who could stand out
from my class was Juumonji-san.
No, wait, I remember. I'm sure of it. I've not completely forsaken my ability
to remember names.
"So, how's the Go Club, Tani-kun?"
Tani Koreyuki, besides being a member of the Go Club, he was also unique
in having a hard to spell name. We would occasionally have small chats like
these in class, though I wasn't particularly that close to him, so he could be
counted as one of my "acquaintances." Now that I see his face again, he had
quite a firm jaw and a rather round nose. But as he didn't leave much of an
impression on me besides those, it means his actions until now were nothing
out of the ordinary.
I have more interest in people who surprise me. Chitanda-san interests me
somewhat, and Houtarou has been surprising me a lot ever since we entered
Kami High. As for people who aren't surprising, unless they have interesting
features of club activities, I would barely struggle to remember their names.
Yet here was Tani-kun passing the Quiz Trial preliminaries. And those
weren't easy questions either. I see now, Tani-kun, my impression of you as a
normal person may not be correct. He was here due to possessing either a
great amount of knowledge or luck.
Tani-kun showed no attempt to hide his elation.
"The Go Club? I do have something interesting to tell you, wanna hear?"
Something interesting, huh? If it's something that's changed my impression of
Tani-kun, it would be that he's never told me something interesting before, as
it did not appeal to me.
"Please step forward to the podium!"
The announcer repeated. Oh yes, my chance at making an appeal. I waved the
palm of my hand to gesture to Tani-kun to move to the podium.